Historical Fiction Books for Kids

…and Flocabulary Songs to Go With Them!

If your students are reading historical fiction, help set the stage with Flocabulary’s history songs! We’ve assembled a list of Flocab videos to help you add a historical component to your literature, or a literary element to your social studies. These raps quickly provide historical context for favorite works of historical fiction.

World History

If you’re reading… …you could use:

Middle Ages: Europe - "It's Dangerous"

The Midwife’s Apprentice by Karen Cushman

The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

The Shakespeare Stealer by Gary Blackwood

Imperialism - "The Sun Never Sets"

The Rich Man of Pietermaritzburg by Sibusiso Nyembezi

Postcolonialism - "Our Own Nation"

Homespun by Nilita Vachani

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beal

The Modern Middle East - "What Lies Beneath"

The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi

Modern China - "Don't Mess with the Dragon"

The House of Sixty Fathers by Meindert DeJong

Spring Pearl: The Last Flower by Laurence Yep

Rebels of the Heavenly Kingdom by Katherine Paterson

American History

If you’re reading… …you could use:

Thirteen Colonies - "I Want America"

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare

The Light in the Forest by Conrad Richter

American Revolution - "This Ain't Working"

My Brother Sam is Dead by Chistopher Collier and James Lincoln Collier

Teachers in more than 60,000 schools have used Flocabulary’s standards-based videos, instructional activities and student creativity tools to develop core literacy skills and supplement instruction across the curriculum.